{"id":19403,"date":"2010-05-30T08:09:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T08:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uva-will-fight-climate-change-attack-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-05-30T08:09:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T08:09:38","slug":"uva-will-fight-climate-change-attack-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/uva-will-fight-climate-change-attack-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"UVa will fight climate change attack | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"kencuccinelli\"Some good news today: The Daily Progress is reporting<\/a> that the University of Virginia will fight the state attorney general’s attacks on academic freedom. <\/p>

A few weeks ago, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli started investigating noted climate scientist Michael Mann<\/a>. While at UVa, Mann was researching climate change. Cuccinelli has submitted a subpoena to get documents about Mann’s research, to see if he was abusing public funds. Cuccinelli’s motivations for doing this are suspect to say the least: Mann has already been cleared of any research wrongdoing. If Cuccinelli is trying to ride the \"climategate\" propaganda, he’s a day late and a docket short; that whole thing has already died with a fizzle.
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But the attacks continue, so the administration at UVa has filed a petition with a judge to set aside Cuccinelli’s subpoena, saying:<\/p>

\"Academic freedom is essential to the mission of our Nation’s institutions of higher learning and a core First Amendment concern,\" UVa’s petition says. \"As Thomas Jefferson intended, the University of Virginia has a long and proud tradition of embracing the ‘illimitable freedom of the human mind’ by fully endorsing and supporting faculty research and scholarly pursuits. Our Nation also has a long and proud tradition of limited government framed by enumerated powers which Jefferson ardently believed was necessary for a civil society to endure.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>

The Jefferson quote is particularly apt; Jefferson founded the University of Virginia, and even designed much of its architecture. A lot of the principles established by him are still apparent at UVa today. I attended the University for six years to get my doctorate, and so I know first-hand that the climate there is steeped in Jeffersonia, and his love of personal and academic freedoms.<\/p>

Cuccinelli’s investigation appears to me to be an attempt to slow or smear research on climate change; an attack on the freedom of academic and scientific research, and cannot stand. I’m very<\/em> glad to see UVa fighting back, and I hope this case becomes a national symbol of the recent attempts to silence science.<\/p>

Tip o’ the thermometer to my fellow Wahoo Noisy Astronomer<\/a>, aka Nicole Gooventargenyehelfen.<\/em><\/p>

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Related posts:<\/p>

Deniers abuse power to attack climate scientists<\/a>
Climate change followup<\/a>
Climate scientists cleared of malpractice by panel<\/a><\/p>

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